Sure, it can’t happen for everyone, but it has to happen often enough to keep Antiques Roadshow going, so I like to hold onto the hope that my day will come!

After all, the chances of buying something on the cheap and ending up with an amazing return are pretty good, and nowhere is that more evident than in the story of a brother and sister in Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK.

In 2009, their eccentric and brilliant uncle passed away, leaving the siblings the deed to a dusty old garage in his will.

When they opened up the space and took a good look inside, they couldn’t believe what they found…

The car was sold several times after it left Curzon’s hands, and eventually purchased by Carr in 1955.

The doctor had a brilliant mechanical mind, and his nephew fondly remembers him fussing over the machinery of his beloved automobiles saying, “…when he tinkered with his cars… he wore a piece of rubber tube round his head to stop the oil [from] getting in his hair.”

The Bugatti disappeared into Carr’s garage in 1960, when its license expired.

It was essentially out of sight and out of mind for the next 50 years, as Carr grew still more eccentric with age and developed strong hoarding tendencies.

When it was found in 2009, the Bugatti was in the garage, alongside a classic Aston Martin, and papered with decades of notes from covetous collectors offering to buy the vehicle from Carr for astronomical sums of money.

Ultimately, it finally went up on the auction block several years later, following in the footsteps of millions of dollars spent on similar automobiles, like fashion designer Ralph Lauren’s Bugatti 57 pictured above.

Carr’s 1937 classic went for around $4 million, and the money was divided up among his relations, none of whom ever expected to become millionaires when they set out to clean out the old garage.

If you’re like me, and this incredible discovery gives you hope for your own eye for flea market gold, make sure to SHARE with any other keen-eyed shoppers!